#sorry if I rambled

[meggahamicide]

What is your favorite piece of art you have created?

That's such a hard question to answer, I've drawn so many pieces that I love so I'll actually give you three. First:

This little lady from 2018. She might not seem like much and you probably can't tell from how my art looks now, but I really give all the credit of my current art style to her. She was the beginning of me finding myself as an artist and, although she's a bit old, I still love her. Next:

This boy from nearly a year ago. This was probably the first time I was able to draw such a dynamic pose without reference. It didn't do very well on here numbers-wise, but it really just showed me how far I've come from solely drawing portraits (looking at it now, it's got so much sticker quality tbh). As for the final piece, this one takes the cake for me:

I absolutely love the way this one turned out. I know it's just a screenshot redraw, but it gave me the chance to just let loose and have fun. I didn't have to focus on toiling away at poses and angles and everything else and simply took what the show gave me and went wild. It's a representation of why I draw: to explore my passion and evolve with it.

Each of these have things in them that I might change if I drew them now, but they all show something about my life as an artist. It's hard to explain what they mean exactly, but each piece I draw is another stepping stone to where I'm going!

[mermaidslabyrinth]

Thank you HotD Fandom

I have been writing since I was around 11. All my works would stay in notebooks, on my word document, or printed out on paper and stashed away. I did post my first fic when I was around 13. Then sporadically through the years. The last time I posted any writing of mine was 10 years ago. But I’m trying to open up more with my writing, creative thoughts, by exposing my work little by little. And out of all the fandoms I’ve been in, it was the HotD fandom, the people I found, that made me feel comfortable enough to do so. Also, I’ve never been more proud or had more love for an OC I’ve created before Rhagerys. I’ve commissioned pieces of art of him, something I have never done with an OC before, and I am quite excited for that. 

So my thanks to all the HotD fans that I have had the pleasure of interacting with (following, being mutuals, reblogging their posts through someone I follow). I have had such a wonderful time and do hope to continue to do so.  I decided to write this because who knows what the future will bring. And I wanted people to know just how much they can make an impact.

Many thanks to: 

@emilykaldwen her ask started it all and I will always be grateful for that. for she was the one who helped me step away from the corner and join in with the other creators. It’s a slow process but I am getting there. 

@selfproclaimedunicorn seeing your OC tags on regular posts emboldened me to start doing the same. It’s another, subtle, way for my work to be put out in the universe. Doing so has even helped me flesh my OMC more in the tags of certain posts. 

@happilyhertale for her wonder writing (I will reblog them. They are on my list). And her continued supply of Daemon/Matt posts. They keep me going with writing Daemon scenes.

@ewanmitchellcrumbs for that ask she answered very recently about just going for it with your writing. It inspired me.

@thought--bubble for being such a lovely person. Your writing skills are top notch (your stories are on my list). 

@vhagar-balerion-meraxes you helped me from being a wallflower to slowly coming in and joining along with the rest. You were the first person in the HotD fandom to extend a hand and pull me into the fun. You make beautiful gif sets. You are very sweet. I appreciate that I was able to find your blog. 

@sylasthegrim I know I don’t show it but I am so happy I follow you. You are slowly converting me to a Cregan appreciator. Like I get it. Your stories are so creative (I will read them they are on the list) and you are so open and kind in your inbox. 

@multiverse-of-multifandoms your fantastic gif making. You help me feel comfortable when I’m joining in on the fun. 

@livmondcole you are one of the sweetest ppl I’ve been lucky enough to follow. You show patience and kindness through your words. 

@dr-aegon you are one of the reasons I was able to get a commission of my OMC. I checked your blog one night and you had a reblog of someone who opened up commissions. They are working on it now, I’ve seen the line work and I’m excited, and I have you to thank for it. Besides that you are one of the reasons that I started to really like Aegon. I see how much you care for him and it warmed my heart and the little disaster did as well. 

And even though she is no longer part of the fandom: peachysunrize was such a wonderful person to follow and read her stories and read the asks ppl would send her. 

Honestly all my HotD mutuals. 

Also shout out to the artists, your works are amazing to see. And shout out to the other fic writers, your writing is enjoyed by many people who like reading about their favorite characters. And the gif makers, the creativity and patience you have. The sets I have seen have blown me away. I know all of these are talents that need to be praised more. The work you all bring to the fandom is always such a gift.

[thestripewearingpilot]

Welp, I've been lucky enough to commission DustySkalez over on Twitter (though you can find them here on Tumblr as well). So behold, my childhood OC Coyne Harp

This Osamodas has lived through both the Dofus and Wakfu eras, and is starting to see the beginning of a new era due to the Great Wave. The reason why he's lived so long? Well, he's a son of the god Osamodas himself, much to Coyne's annoyance.

Coyne only met his father near the end of the Dofus era, and it couldn't have been a worse revelation to him. Coyne was raised in a family of Ecaflip's who resided near the Ecaflip temple, and became quite a devout follower of the god of luck. When it came time to declare his loyalty to a god, the choice was obvious to him, but he found that his form wouldn't change. For one reason or another, he was stuck in the form of an Osamodas. Having access to the temple that Ecaflip himself often called home, he confronted Ecaflip asking him why and begging him to accept him as his follower. Ecaflip's answer was less than satisfactory.

He informed Coyne that the reason for his predicament was beyond his control, but that he did accept him as a follower. He then gifted Coyne a special die branded with his own face as proof of his acceptance. This die does nothing by the way, it's just Ecaflip branded and has a silver coating to it. This hardly helped his mood as a result.

Unbeknownst to Coyne at the time, this situation was because he's Osamodas' son. His form was unable to change due to his heritage. Oh, and Ecaflip was having an absolute blast due to this fact. Although he very rarely saw the introverted Osamodas, you can be sure he always rubbed it in his face that his son worshiped him instead.

Coyne, however, was devastated. He had spent his whole childhood being an outcast from the other Ecaflips. He did everything he could to be considered one of them, but his own appearance betrayed him. He thought it would be temporary, but now it seemed to be a permanent problem.

For a year he fell into a deep depression, doing things he would later regret. One day though, he woke up, and came to a conclusion. His situation... it must be a test of faith, a test of character, and if so, he was failing terribly. It was then that he set off on his adventure. Beginning the journey that would lead him to finding out the truth behind his origins.

During the Dofus era, Coyne is stubbornly an Ecaflip, despite having none of the benefits from being one. Due to this he wears 6 pouches that each contain multiple loaded decks. He also takes many risks in the hopes that it will pay off. He's quite stern and serious, rarely showing off his softer side, reserving it only for his adopted brother Jules. When it comes to the creatures that inhabit the Krosmoz, he avoids interactions with them as much as possible. Though infuriatingly they seem to love him regardless...

During the Wakfu era he accepted the Osamodas part of himself. He allowed his tail to grow back, and using his summoning abilities has caused his skin to turn blue and his hair to begin to whiten. Annoyingly, he finds himself looking more like his father everyday, a fact that he hates. He's still a strong follower of Ecaflip, but has cut down on the amount of cards he carries on himself. He makes up for this loss with his incredible summoning ability. The one power he got from his father is the ability to summon any creature. Though the downside of this ability is the amount of energy it costs him to summon something. As a creature gets bigger, farther, or becomes unwilling the energy required to summon them increases exponentially. His main goal during this era is just to help others in rural, hard to reach areas and to increase his energy. He's still quite serious, but his sternness has faded into a fondness of life. The flood made him appreciate the world in a way he never did before, and helped to bring him closer to the creatures of the World of Twelve. He also does his best to keep an eye on Jules' descendants, a promise to his fallen brother that he intends to keep.

[theoihalioistuff]

Hi, I've finished the Illiad and Odyssey not so long ago, and I'm a little bit confused.

In those texts, characters or narrator sometimes refer to Zeus as "the oldest of gods." I've read these on my native language, so I decided there was some translation problem, but then I've came across couple of English posts also talking about Zeus as the oldest and yes, I understand that posts people write aren't the best source of information but along with what I've read in the poems it made me doubting.

So, are there some versions of the myths where Zeus is the oldest? Or is it simply a translation or interpretation problem, like "the oldest" in the meaning "the strongest/wisest/greatest/etc"?

I will be very thankful for the explanation because somehow, this made me so confused.

No problem! Although Zeus is almost always presented as the youngest son from Hesiod onwards, he is in fact described as the oldest in the Iliad. For example, when he sends Iris with a message to Poseidon:

"I came here bearing a message for you, dark-haired holder of the earth, from Zeus who wields the aegis. He commands you to desist from war and battle and to go among the tribe of gods, or into the bright salt sea. And if you do not obey his words, but ignore them, he threatens that he too will come here to do battle, face-to-face; and he bids you avoid his hands, since he says he is more powerful by far than you in strength and in birth is elder." (Il. 15. 174-182)

One could suspect Zeus is bending the truth or being metaphorical in claiming primogeniture (considering the other more popular tradition) but the Iliad states it as a literal fact, as evidenced by Iris' response to Poseidon when he says that Zeus can snorkel his dongle:

"Is it in this way then, dark-haired holder of the earth, I should bear this harsh and powerful word to Zeus, or will you change your mind at all? The minds of the great are yielding. And you know the Furies always attend the elder born." (Il. 15. 201-204)

Meaning if conflict were to arise the Furies would side with Zeus because he the is older sibling. Hera is likewise here the eldest of the goddesses, and there's no reason to suppose it's not meant literally.

Curiously, quite the opposite interaction occurs in the Odyssey. If in the Iliad Poseidon has to give way to Zeus' bullying because Zeus is the eldest, in the Odyssey it is Zeus who, though still supreme king, gives way to Poseidon because here Poseidon is the eldest:

"Then in turn Zeus who gathers the clouds made answer: ‘What a thing to have said, Earthshaker of the wide strength. The gods do not hold you in dishonor. It would be a hard thing if we were to put any slight on the eldest and best among us. But if there is any man who, giving way to the violence and force in him, slights you, it will be yours to punish him. Now and always. Do as you will and as it pleases you.’" (Od. 13. 139-145)

Ancient authors were not unaware of the contradiction, and there seem to have been attempts to reconcile both traditions, like in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, where it's said of Hestia:

"She was the first-born child of wily Kronos and youngest too, by the will of Zeus who holds the aegis." (Hom. Hymn. 5. 22-23)

No further explanation is given, but it's widely assumed that this is a reference to Kronos disgorging his children in the reverse order in which he swallowed them, ie. rock first and Hestia last (Hes. Th. 500 and Apollod. 1.2.1). The imagery of Kronos "rebirthing" his kids from his throat is... explicitly, used by Nonnos in the Dionysiaca when describing the scene:

"How he [Kronos] opened a gaping throat to receive a stony son, when he made a meal of the counterfeit body of a pretended Zeus; how the stone played midwife to the brood of imprisoned children, and shot out the burden of the parturient gullet" (Book 12. 43)

[Describing a shield that depicts Kronos swallowing the stone] "There he was again in heavy labour, with the stone inside him, bringing up all those children squeezed together and disgorging the burden from his pregnant throat." (Book 25. 553)

"And these dwelt in the city of Beroe, that primordial seat which Kronos himself built, at that time when, invited by clever Rhea, he set that jagged supper before his voracious throat, and having the heavy weight of that stone within him to play the deliverer's part, he shot out the whole generation of his tormented children. Gaping wide, he sucked up the storming flood of a whole river, and swallowed it in his bubbling chest to ease his pangs, then threw of the burden of his belly; so one after another his pregnant throat pushed up and disgorged his twiceborn sons through the delivering channel of his gullet." (Book 41. 65)

Hope I could be of help! And that Nonnos hasn't traumatised anyone too much.

[azazelthesorceror]

Hey Mod, how many RP blogs do you run and how much time do you have to run them? I can't imagine running a rp blog let alone multiple like aaa what if I reblog on the wrong account?

hi mod here

i run about... 5 rp accounts i think?

@tuneymusic

@l3v1uhthan

@moneyluvsdamien

the lord diavolo one

nd this one

i dont hardly post on this account or tuneymusic because theyre less relevant unless plot requires them to be + z has access to levi's account and so does her silly stuff over there

until maddi mod decides what the next problem is going to be then i rlly only have 3 accounts to check everyday + damien blog rlly doesn't get asks so its only 2 accounts

i answer all the asks as canon as i can or however i feel like it

i took exactly one break because levi account notifications were piling up to the hundreds everyday + atleast 20 asks before 2025

i dedicate about like 30 minutes everyday checking the accounts and answering asks

i also have a laptop as well as my phone so i can use the laptop to check dia account and phone to check levi account

honestly dont do what i do i just have insane autism and adhd which makes me hyperfixate on this stuff so its easy to get done

[seraphimsmonsterheaven]

Hey!! Can I have a summary of Mavericks story? Very very curious

Hello!!!! Thank u for asking, ofc u can :3 Maverick is an extradimensional entity, he originated from deep beyond our dreams, he's very curious about things and really into being in control. for context, dreams are these protective "barriers" that stop us from wandering into other dimensions/plane and also seeing things we can't handle, so Maverick basically came from beyond that and for that reason he can manipulate and surpass or dreams and also access other dimensions. His backstory is kinda simple? He's just this chaotic eldritch thing that came into existence, took the form of a human, and now just kinda messes with us! He's currently in Ilha Nova, where the "barrier" is weaker so it allows for him to play around with the residents and stuff. He has knowledge of things beyond our comprehension, and his true form can lead to madness... but he just spends his time entertaining himself (through psychological torture and reality bending), this makes the rest of my story happen.

[thetrashppl]

heyo fam i wish i had the courage to ask off anon BUT anyway. How do you get so fast at art other than the fact that you'll die if you spend more than 10 mins?

hellooooo

i dont know tbh, and to be fair my art is like. super sketchy and unrendered and full of lines that dont need to be there lmao

i've just drawn a lot all my life as a form of escapism ig and depending on the season i'll draw more to escape and less to learn or do something 'pretty'. rn im also not doing much of anything else at the moment so i got a lot of time in my hands to just draw and draw

but i think the answer is the same as always, just lots of practice. there's also stuff i draw way faster than other stuff, like smug cartoony faces pfrt cause theres a structure i have memorized and can warp and modify depending on whati need at the moment. i think the best thing u can do is find something that motivates u and draw it a lot cause believe it or not it helps A LOT to loosen ur lines and learn stuff as u go while fully motivated even if it's the same subject. sometimes ill try to jump straight into a full body sketch and it will just not work. if i warm up for an hour or so just drawing busts while listening to music ill suddenly find myself in the zone and i'll be able to get the full body drawing done much easier

i have lost all practice but i rmmbr learning to better draw layered clothes and learning to organize comic pages and studying how to draw robot like shit just because i loved timothy lawrence and wanted to draw a lot of stuff of him and my oc together. it evolved the way i understood faces and still hold that knowledge to this day

hopefully any of this works out for u. also look at other artists' work for inspiration and motivation, never to compare urself! i miss the days i went to art classes cause wow THAT was absolutely motivating. the feedback and fun you can have just drawing stuff with and for other people can also help u see ur art in a much brighter light. makes it fun to learn and evolve

[pianocat939]

I've seen the boyfriend comics around but never actually looked into it. Genuine question, what crimes did the boyfriends commit to deserve such (admittedly funny) slander?

Tw: Fetishizing, Sexualizing

Ok I’m not going to blame you for anything considering I think you’re not like fully aware- so don’t feel bad. (Especially since you haven’t really read it at all-)

I died when I tried to read like 3 episodes

So basically the Boyfriends webtoon has fallen into the Fujoshi-like category.

Now if you don’t know what a Fujoshi is- it’s a Japanese media term for someone who likes reading/writing/making art of comics/anime of male gay ships in a fetishizing way.

At first back in idk- some time ago- BL/Fujoshi comics were made to show the “beauty” of forbidden love (by historical standards). But that original meaning has been replaced with more sexual/just not quite socially acceptable expressions of gay male couple comics/media.

Now we have that background info through:

Boyfriends has shown MANY controversial moments within the comic.

Like supposedly at the beginning it was kinda normal- but quickly it had turned into constant sexual moments between the men and weird…terms and romance moments.

(Like- how the “Nerd” is wearing really tight clothing and trying to basically to entice the other boyfriends into sexual activities in a weird way)

Also- idk if this is in the same comic, but there’s a Girlfriends one too- made by the same artist. And at one point one of the members of the relationship sexualized nuns and religious roles.

OHO AND I HAVE MORE DIRT ON THIS ARTIST-

So I’m guessing at least some of you know the K-pop group called BTS- well- that artist had made a comic(s..?) of not only sexualizing but fetishizing the two youngest members in a ship comic-

So yeah not only the Boyfriends comic is problematic but the artist as a whole.

[sadgirlautumn]

“kids spend too much time on their devices” well what else are they supposed to do? there’s no corner shops with pinball machines in them on every corner anymore. there’s no malls or stores in small towns for teens to hang out in without being suspected of shoplifting or kicked out for loitering. sidewalks are too broken for them to ride their bikes and there’s no bike lane in the street to make it safe for them. i just don’t understand where they expect these kids to go when they keep taking places away from them. and yes having no safe public places for them is what leads a lot of teens into addiction if they end up at a place where people aren’t truly looking out for them.

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[risetherivermoon]

ppl dont talk about the fact that even Daisuke's characterization is affected by Jimmy's unreliable perspective. He refers to Daisuke as a spoiled rich kid who has his mommy and daddy behind him, that he's impressionable and stupid, and i do see people kinda characterizing him like that

like he has these rich parents who will dote on him and give him everything, that he's an airhead who isn't good at anything...

yet in curly's perspective we see that he's good at board games, he's trying his best, he's trying to listen to swansea and learn from him. He did get the internship from his parents but not because he wanted to, but because his parents thought he wasn't going anywhere in life, that he needed to be doing something. Daisuke is silly and a positive person but that's just for show, we see in the scene where Jimmy finds him lying on the floor drunk on mouthwash, that Daisuke isn't doing well, he's scared and feels sad about his parents. He makes jokes to cope with the horrible tension on the ship.

people characterize him as a stupid little kid too much for my liking, that's how Jimmy sees him. As a spoiled brat who came on the ship just to be an inconvenience. Even Swansea didn't see him like that, sure he complained about him but in Daisuke's final moments we see Swansea's true colors and how much he actually cares for him. He's an adult, who's putting on this happy go-lucky persona because he truly wants to succeed in life, and he's doing the internship for his mom and dad even though he doesn't want to. So he makes friends, he tries his best, he wants to be on the good side of everyone on the ship.

Jimmy just saw him as an easy target, someone too trusting and easily manipulated. A stupid kid he can use to get what he wants. He even plays with Daisuke's feelings of needing validation from Swansea, someone he looks up to. He tells Daisuke that by going in the vent, he'd make Swansea proud.

Daisuke isn't someone who has it easy or someone who's a stupid airhead. Jimmy just saw kindness and positivity as weakness.

[teaboot]

On of the less intuitive things about love, I've found, of any kind, is the importance of needing things.

I didn't realize it until recently, but I've always seen love as something requiring sacrifice, selflessness, patience, and generosity- to ask for nothing is to be the best person I can be, small and quiet and never in the way, always happy and helpful, self-sufficient and present when desired.

It's only as an adult, now, that I'm beginning to see the selfishness of wanting nothing.

I cut my friend's hair in my kitchen the other day. They wanted a trim and I had the skills, so I offered, and was genuinely excited when they stopped hesitating over "bothering me" and took me up on it. It was a peaceful afternoon, and we had tea and chatted for an hour or more.

My brother and I shared popcorn at the movies a while ago. When I came time to pay, I pulled my card out like a wild western sheriff and slapped it on the machine before he could fight me for it first. The satisfaction was delightful.

Someone called me crying on the phone the other day. Kept apologizing for disturbing me at work, talking about how they were bothering me on my lunch break. I was telling the truth when I told them that really, I was flattered and honored and relieved, knowing that if they were hurting I would know, that I didn't have to worry in silence. It felt good to hear them slowly come down, and to know that they knew it would be better soon, and to hear them laugh wetly on the other end. We're getting together for a visit next week.

It's hard to need things, if you've trained yourself not to. It's hard to want things, when you don't know how to want anymore. Trusting people is difficult, and so is relying on them, but I don't know where I'd be without the people who rely on me.

I've heard a lot of people say, "Nobody will love you unless you love yourself". I've had a lot of thoughts about it. It's not right, but it's not wrong, either, I think.

"Nobody will love you unless you love yourself"... I've always taken that to mean, "You will not be lovable until you develop a positive view of yourself as a person".

Now, I think it's sort of inside-out.

"Nobody will love you unless you love yourself"... because nobody can show their love to you in a way that you can accept until you treat yourself kindly, and learn what you need, and what you want, and how to ask for it, and then give that vulnerability away.

Love, for me, is someone I ask for a ride to the airport. Whether they end up doing this or not is irrelevant.

It's not needy, or selfish, or taking up energy. It's giving the gift of being wanted, and needed, and thought of. It's giving someone the security of being part of someone's life.

[dillyt]

[onlinedolly]

nanami who secretly gets off to being so much older then you, his cock twitching whenever you remind him of the gap between your ages. he loved having you clinged around his arm in public, a subtle ego boost as he watched how people reacted. he pretended to be better then that, rolling his eyes everytime satoru said something crude. you were barely in university when he had gotten with you and didn’t like the way his cock stirred when gojo joked about ‘robbing the craddle.’ he just couldn’t help it, not when you were so young and pretty. not when you got so shy when he worked his cock into you, something an older more experienced woman would never do. the thought itself could make him cum, knowing you were innocent and shy and young.

nanami would just love his younger girlfriend so much 🤒

[noodles-and-tea]

Just some more thoughts on that jayvik dbh au